Mustafa Khattab – Living The Quran

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Muslims in multiple countries, including Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Yemen. The Quran is not meant to be read or written on the wall, but individuals can be recited and applied to their daily lives. The message of the Quran is to keep in mind behavior and reflect on the Bible. It is important to read and apply the Quran to achieve success, and cultural differences between the Arabic and non-B carriers are discussed.

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			And Alhamdulillah
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of our worship except Allah
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad
		
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			is the Seal of the Prophets and the
		
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			Final Messenger to all of humanity.
		
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			Whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides, there is
		
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			none to misguide, and whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala leads astray, there is none to guide
		
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			the right.
		
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			So over the last few years, Alhamdulillah, I
		
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			got the chance
		
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			to study most of the existing translations of
		
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			the Quran, and and also the different tafasir
		
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			of the Quran, because we have been working
		
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			on a new translation of the Quran, it's
		
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			called the Clear Quran So I was able
		
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			to study the Quran,
		
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			more closely
		
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			For those of you who follow the news,
		
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			they, they see the misery in the news.
		
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			You see the pictures of Syrian kids. See
		
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			the one that has been over the news
		
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			over the last couple of days, Adnan?
		
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			Sorry. And before that, the brother was drowned
		
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			over the coast of Turkey, and so on
		
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			and so forth. These are miserable situations, and
		
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			you see, subhanAllah,
		
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			like, in the case of a lot of
		
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			Muslims in the world, the most refugees in
		
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			the world are Muslim,
		
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			orphans are Muslims, widows are Muslims. The cheapest
		
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			blood on earth is the blood of Muslims.
		
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			And you see the misery and the suffering.
		
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			Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan,
		
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			Yemen, Egypt, Libya,
		
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			almost all of them.
		
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			And SubhanAllah, when you read in the Quran,
		
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			there is something,
		
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			the Surah Al Quran called Rabdulillah Sadr Al
		
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			A'z,
		
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			connecting the beginning of the Surah with the
		
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			ending, and this is something unique in the
		
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			Quran. The Surah of the Quran begins by
		
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			talking about something,
		
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			and it concludes by talking about the same
		
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			thing. I'll give you one example.
		
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			So for example, when you read at the
		
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			beginning of Surah Ta'ah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			says Taaha,
		
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			Ma'anzamna'alaykum
		
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			Quranalitashqah
		
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			You Muhammad is talking to the Prophet
		
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			We have not revealed this Quran to cause
		
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			you misery and distress.
		
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			This Quran was revealed to you to give
		
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			you happiness and joy in this dunya and
		
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			in Afar.
		
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			And at the end of the Surah, it
		
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			talks about, of course, it talks about the
		
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			story of Musa,
		
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			many pages, and so on and so forth.
		
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			It talks about the story of Adam. Then
		
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			at the end of the Surah, it says,
		
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			Those who turn their back to the Quran
		
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			will live a miserable life. So the beginning
		
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			of the Surah says, those who follow the
		
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			Quran will be happy, will have a decent
		
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			life, and at the end of the Surah
		
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			it says, those who turn their back to
		
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			the Quran will live a miserable life.
		
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			You read that you read at the beginning
		
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			of Surah Muminun, kadaflahal muminun al ladinahunfil salatiem
		
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			khajarun
		
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			The believers are successful. And at the end
		
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			of Surah Muminun says, In Nahulayuflifal
		
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			kafirun. Indeed, the Kuffar will never succeed. So
		
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			it gives you the opposite that connects the
		
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			beginning of the Surah with the end, and
		
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			this is very common in the Quran. This
		
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			is from the the ajaz of the Quran.
		
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			So those of you
		
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			who follow the news, and they see the
		
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			suffering and the misery,
		
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			SubhanAllah!
		
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			Now, the advancement of science and technology and
		
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			medicines, you see how many hospitals all over
		
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			the world, and more and more people are
		
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			getting sick.
		
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			The means of entertainment,
		
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			how many theaters,
		
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			movie channels,
		
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			Netflix, and all these things, but still more
		
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			and more people are getting stressed out.
		
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			You see, the world is coming closer because
		
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			of the Internet and because of Facebook,
		
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			but still now, more and more people are
		
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			living in raccoons.
		
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			When you if you go visit someone, you
		
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			look at their kids, each one of them
		
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			has a tablet, has an iPhone, or an
		
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			iPad, and they are just they're stuck, they're
		
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			glued to their their iPhone or their iPad,
		
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			they don't talk to each other anymore.
		
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			Even if they want to ask each other
		
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			about something, they will just text each other
		
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			on Facebook. Of all, they are living, they're
		
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			staying on the same room.
		
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			So this is how miserable people have become.
		
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			The United Nations has been established, or was
		
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			established many years back, but you see more
		
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			people are getting killed, and more wars now
		
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			than before the United Nations,
		
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			peace, whatever. Right?
		
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			So, people do things, and it goes to
		
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			the opposite because, what?
		
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			Because of what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
		
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			telling us in the Quran.
		
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			Those who turn away from the Quran, they
		
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			turn their backs to the Quran, they will
		
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			live a miserable life. I don't find
		
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			any better term to describe the situation in
		
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			the Muslim world, or the world in general
		
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			now, than the word bank. Banki in the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Those who turn their back to the reminder,
		
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			which is the Quran, they will live a
		
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			miserable life.
		
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			For a lot of Muslims,
		
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			Quran is something
		
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			that is used for Barakah only. It is
		
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			not a book of life, it's a book
		
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			of Barakah.
		
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			So they read it, for example,
		
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			or they put it, like, on the wall,
		
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			something like this, they put it on the
		
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			wall in their house, just for Barakah.
		
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			They put a copy of the Quran,
		
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			in their car, like, especially back home when
		
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			they don't have car insurance, they just put
		
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			it on the windshield or the dashboard, and
		
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			they put it in the back, just for
		
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			Barakah, like, for insurance, to protect the car.
		
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			And, in the houses, you see the, you
		
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			know, the things they, you know, they put
		
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			on the wall, they inscribe Quran on God,
		
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			or whatever, and they put it on the
		
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			wall,
		
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			You know,
		
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			so even back home when you look at
		
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			the thieves,
		
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			the corrupt people they always have statements from
		
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			the Quran behind them on the wall, like
		
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			this is a gift from Allah,
		
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			This is the the ayah from the Quran
		
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			they put behind them. Right?
		
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			And so on and so forth. So people
		
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			don't use the Quran the right way. The
		
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			Quran is not meant to be put on
		
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			the wall in gold. The Quran is meant
		
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			to be recited and understood and applied to
		
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			our daily lives.
		
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			For some
		
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			people, in the Quran,
		
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			So back home, most of the time, a
		
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			lot of people have no conviction whatsoever with
		
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			the Quran, unless someone dies. They start to
		
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			recite Quran for Janazah, but after that, nothing.
		
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			As if, the Quran is the book of
		
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			the death.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us in
		
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			the Quran, istajibulnaverasuriya
		
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			da'atulina yuhheekum The Quran is a source of
		
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			life This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			calls the Quran in the Quran itself
		
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			So it's a source of life, it is
		
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			not meant only for this.
		
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			For a lot of people,
		
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			when they think about the Quran, they think,
		
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			Oh, this is a history book, an ancient
		
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			book.
		
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			And, you know, it talks about Musa 3000
		
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			years ago, about,
		
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			Muhammad Salazar, 1500 years ago. It talks about
		
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			the children of Adam, Bani Adam, Bani' Adam,
		
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			Bani'ida,
		
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			who knows how many 1000 years ago.
		
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			So for them, some people think, well, it
		
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			is not very much relevant to our life
		
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			these days.
		
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			Well, subhanAllah, if you read the Quran very
		
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			closely, you will see that it is very
		
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			relevant, because history
		
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			has a habit
		
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			of repeating itself.
		
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			When you read about Firaun, Pharaoh in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			how many Firauns,
		
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			pharaohs you picture in our time?
		
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			In that country, in that a lot of
		
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			pharaohs.
		
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			When for example you read about,
		
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			So when it talks about abused and oppressed
		
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			men, women and children,
		
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			you said Umrah,
		
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			who say You Allah! They cry You Allah!
		
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			Take us out of this oppressive land! Give
		
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			us a savior! Gave us someone to protect
		
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			and help us! By your help and your
		
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			grace.
		
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			So you picture the people of Syria, the
		
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			people of Iraq, and the people of Palestine,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			When you read for example about the story
		
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			of Yusuf Alaihi Salam in the Quran.
		
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			So I picture the temptation of our youth
		
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			in our times because the temptations are so
		
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			high
		
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			and so on and so forth. The stories
		
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			are repeated all the time. So when you
		
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			read the Quran,
		
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			those who read and reflect and contemplate
		
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			the Ayat of the Quran, they can easily
		
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			relate what is mentioned in the Quran to
		
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			our daily lives now. Because as I said,
		
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			history repeats itself all the time. So you
		
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			will find something relevant in the Quran.
		
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			You see, in the Quran Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is telling the Prophet
		
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			about the story of Musa and how pharaoh
		
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			was a tyrant in the land, and eventually
		
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			he was destroyed.
		
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			Even to the Prophet this
		
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			was a reminder
		
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			of this sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			That the oppressed
		
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			will prevail at the end, and the oppressors
		
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			will go down,
		
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			and Jahannam at the end. So, this is
		
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			also a lesson for us. So, the Quran
		
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			is very relevant today, as it was at
		
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			the time of the Prophet SAWHANNAH
		
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			So what is the Quran? What what does
		
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			it represent for us? We need to keep
		
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			in mind
		
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			that the Quran, when you look at this,
		
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			the Quran is the finest revelation from Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Asan Al Hadith. This is
		
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			how it is called in the Quran itself.
		
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			One thing unique about the Quran,
		
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			as a book,
		
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			it's probably the only book in the world
		
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			that doesn't have the name of the author
		
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			on the cover.
		
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			You think of any other book,
		
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			no, it has the author on the cover.
		
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			But the Qur'an doesn't have an Author on
		
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			the cover. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals
		
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			Himself on every page. He talks about the
		
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			Qur'an, He talks about the purpose of life,
		
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			He talks about the believers, the kuffar, He
		
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			talks about jannah, jahannnah, kisaab, all these things.
		
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			So this is what is unique about the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed the finest book,
		
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			Aksana Kitab,
		
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			Li'ashlafi Nabi
		
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			to the Finest Prophet,
		
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			it's coming from Rav Bilal Amir,
		
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			Through Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam, the Finest Angel,
		
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			in the Finest Land, Makkah,
		
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			in the Finest Month, Ramadan,
		
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			on the Finest
		
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			Night, Laylatul Qadr to the Finest Umma, khairummatitikhjjajatilinas.
		
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			So it's the Finest, from the Finest, through
		
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			the Finest, to the Finest, in the Finest,
		
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			on the Finest,
		
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			it's all Finest.
		
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			For the Finest Ummah revealed to the people.
		
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			What is also unique about the Quran, it's
		
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			the Last Revelation from Allah
		
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			Wa'idhali
		
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			So Umu Ayman, when the Prophet SAWA wasalam
		
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			died,
		
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			she was crying, and she was always in
		
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			tears, and some of the sahabas said, okay,
		
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			why are you crying? You know, we understand
		
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			the Prophet SAWH passed away. It's a very
		
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			very difficult time for all of us, but
		
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			we know that the Prophet SAWH was going
		
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			to die. He's not eternal, he's a human
		
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			being, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling
		
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			him in the Quran, You Muhammad
		
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			You Rasool Allah, you will die, and everyone
		
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			else will die. So we know. She said,
		
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			I'm not crying for this.
		
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			I'm crying
		
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			for the revelation of what that has stopped
		
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			completely
		
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			because from the beginning of time from Adam
		
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			through Nuh and Ibrahim
		
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			and Musa and Issa and Dawood and Surayman
		
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			and all these prophets.
		
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			We know from authentic Hadith that, the number
		
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			of Prophets who were sent,
		
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			124,000
		
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			Prophets,
		
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			a fewer number of them were messengers. They
		
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			received revelations,
		
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			but with
		
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			the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			this wahi, this revelation that have continued for
		
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			1000 of years,
		
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			is over now. Khalas. No more revelations. The
		
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			Quran is the final. It's the final. Khalas.
		
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			It's finished.
		
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			So she said, I'm crying because now the
		
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			revelation is stopping. We're not getting any revelations
		
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			anymore from Allah
		
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			This is why she was crying.
		
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			We know that Allah
		
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			is challenging people in the Quran, all the
		
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			time,
		
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			to show them that this is the truth.
		
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			It's in the Quran, we will always continue
		
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			to show you miracles and signs in the
		
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			Quran, in yourselves, in the universe,
		
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			to know that this Quran is the truth
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And he is giving us
		
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			what they call in in science, they call
		
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			it falsification test. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
		
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			challenging humanity,
		
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			and He is telling us if you think
		
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			this Quran is not from me, okay?
		
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			You gotta do 1 of 3 things.
		
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			He says number 1, if you want to
		
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			prove that this Quran is wrong,
		
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			find 1 contradiction
		
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			If this Quran was from anyone other than
		
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			Allah, you will find a lot of contradictions
		
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			in it
		
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			Find one if you can
		
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			Now I know some of you go to
		
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			school
		
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			when you turn the paper to your teacher,
		
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			you give them the paper and assignment,
		
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			you challenge your teacher, well this is my
		
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			assignment,
		
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			I challenge you to find one mistake.
		
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			So this is the way Allah
		
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			Allah is presenting the Quran to us, find
		
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			one mistake, they have been trying forever, no
		
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			one could find a mistake in the Quran.
		
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			Number 2, Allah
		
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			is challenging us, if you think this Quran
		
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			is not from me,
		
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			make one like it in Arabic. In
		
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			Surah 2 of the Quran, Surah Baqarah if
		
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			he said, If
		
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			you think this Quran is not from me,
		
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			make one like it.
		
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			And this is in the 2nd Surah. In
		
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			Surah number 11, there are 10 Surahs before,
		
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			He says, If you think this Quran is
		
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			not from me,
		
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			Fattu Be'ashri Surahim Mithlihi Muftayyah
		
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			This is Surah number 11.
		
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			So Surah number 2 it says, Make one
		
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			like it. Maybe it's talking about Fati Hadhamah
		
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			before. Surah number 11, Surah number hud. Surah
		
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			number 11, he said if you think this
		
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			Quran is not from me, make 10 like
		
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			it. The 10 Surahs before because this is
		
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			Surah number 11.
		
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			So SubhanAllah, the challenge is still there, no
		
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			one was able to take the challenge.
		
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			Allah SubhanAllah Wa Ta'la, challenge number 3, is
		
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			telling us, if you think this Quran is
		
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			not from Me, then watch, I will preserve
		
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			this Quran forever.
		
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			Now if you think about it,
		
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			millions of people throughout history, or probably billions,
		
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			they memorize the Quran. Not a single book
		
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			other than the Quran has been memorized by
		
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			so many people.
		
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			And if all the books in the world
		
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			are burnt,
		
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			or thrown in the ocean, only the Quran
		
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			will survive.
		
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			Because it will come back in a matter
		
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			of days because we have millions of Afas
		
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			including the brother right here, Umaydi Adan, he
		
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			is Hafid al Quran Masha'Allah.
		
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			So people will always
		
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			bring it back from memory and write it
		
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			down. This is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Other books,
		
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			Kitabu Ibrahim, Sohu Ibrahim, they are done. We
		
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			don't have them.
		
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			Dawood Alayhi Salaam is Zaboor, Tarah ijil corrupted
		
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			over time. Only the Quran is protected, and
		
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			this is from the challenge of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			How do we approach the Quran?
		
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			Because we, as Muslims, we know that this
		
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			is the connection. There are some revelations, some
		
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			traditions from the Prophet SAWH
		
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			that say that the Quran
		
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			is a Saba, a rope, between you and
		
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			Allah. So he says in the hadith, one
		
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			end of the rope is in the hands
		
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			of Allah,
		
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			the other end of the rope is in
		
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			your hand.
		
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			So when you read the Quran, you have
		
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			this connection between you and Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			We need to be reading the Quran more
		
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			and more. If you want to understand the
		
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			purpose of life, the solution to the misery,
		
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			the pain, and the problems we have in
		
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			our world, Go back to the Quran, and
		
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			read the Quran, and of course,
		
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			you have also to read the sunnah because
		
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			both of them came from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. A
		
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			hadith are also by what? From Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala to the Prophet
		
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			And listen to the Quran. The Prophet SAW.
		
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			SAW. Although he used to read the Quran
		
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			all the time, he used to listen to
		
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			the Quran from other people. There are so
		
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			many Hadith.
		
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			Abdullah ibn Mas'ura radiAllahu
		
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			faqalainuuhibu
		
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			anasma'hu Milayl. I would love to hear someone
		
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			else recite the Quran to me. So Abdullah
		
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			ibn Mas'ur, it's an authentic hadith in Bukhari,
		
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			started to read from Surah An Isaa from
		
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			the beginning,
		
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			3, 4 pages he recited,
		
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			until the prophet Abdullah
		
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			ibn Maswud recited this ayah.
		
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			So in this hadith,
		
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			Abdullah ibn Azrul started to read for the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, recite Quran, and
		
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			he recited from Surah 4, Surah Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			From Ayah 1, he recited 2 or 3
		
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			pages, until he came to this Ayah. Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, I'm not just, adjust
		
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			to anyone in the least,
		
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			even if you do something small as an
		
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			Adam's weight, you will see it on the
		
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			Day of Judgment.
		
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			How will it be, Ah, Surah Allah, on
		
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			the Day of Judgment? We will bring a
		
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			witness from every people of their Prophet to
		
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			witness against them, and we bring you, You
		
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			Muhammad, as a witness over humanity.
		
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			Then the Prophet was
		
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			crying and he told Abdullah Nasruww that's that's
		
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			enough
		
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			in another authentic hadith, Abdullah Ubayib Nika'a
		
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			You Ubayi Allah gives you Salaam, Ubayi was
		
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			one of the scribes who used to write
		
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			the Quran for the Prophet SAWHAN
		
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			He said You Ubayi Allah gives you Salaam,
		
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			and he told me Tilu Ubayi ibn Kaab
		
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			to read Surah Bayinah for you.
		
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			So Ubay ibn Ka'b was astonished, he was
		
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			stunned.
		
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			And he said, Did Allah
		
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			mention me by name? Did he ask you,
		
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			till Ubay ibn Ka'b to read Surah Bayyina
		
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			for you? He said, Yes. Yes. Allah mentioned
		
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			you by name. Subayr radiAllahu anhu started to
		
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			cry, because what a great honor.
		
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			So we need to read the Quran, and
		
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			listen to the Quran.
		
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			We need to reflect on the Quran, and
		
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			apply it to their lives.
		
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			We know what is halal in the Quran,
		
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			and what is haram, and so on and
		
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			so forth. We know theft is haram, abuse
		
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			is haram, shitting people's blood is haram,
		
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			rebal is haram, pork is haram,
		
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			so on and so forth. Everyone knows what
		
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			is halal and halal, but they need to
		
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			back it up by reading the Quran,
		
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			and to be attached to the Quran.
		
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			Abdullah ibn Allahu Alaihi Wasallamu He was sitting
		
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			with his wife one day, he was sick,
		
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			he was lying when his wife left,
		
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			and he started to cry,
		
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			and his wife started to cry with him.
		
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			He said, well,
		
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			I was crying, I know why I was
		
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			crying, but why did you cry?
		
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			So she said, well, I saw you crying,
		
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			I cried like you, to support you, emotional
		
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			support.
		
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			Now you, he said, I saw you cry,
		
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			She said, I saw you crying, I started
		
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			to cry like you.
		
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			He said, the reason I'm crying because
		
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			I remember this ayah from the Quran that
		
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			talks about Jahannam,
		
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			and the salah, the bridge between Jannah and
		
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			the hannah, and the ayah says, none of
		
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			you, except that they will pass over this
		
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			bridge over Jannah, so Abdullaha Rabnuwaha said, Wallahi,
		
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			I was not sure if I'll fall down,
		
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			or I will be saved and go to
		
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			Jannah, this is why I'm crying.
		
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			So this is the understanding.
		
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			So reading, reflecting, and applying the Quran to
		
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			your life, and also if you are able
		
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			to memorize,
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Memorization is a great honor from Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. If someone memorizes the Quran,
		
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			there's an authentic hadith that says on the
		
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			day of judgment, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would
		
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			put a crown of gold and pearl over
		
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			your head,
		
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			and the person will ask, You Allah, why
		
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			am I getting dishonor? And Allah will say,
		
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			This is because your kids are khafar.
		
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			They memorize the Quran.
		
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			But memorization by itself is not enough. Memorization
		
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			without understanding
		
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			and applying is not enough. It's not a
		
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			good thing. We just add another copy of
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			But the people who memorize it and they
		
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			don't apply it and they don't understand it
		
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			they will not be they will not be
		
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			from the people of the Quran on the
		
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			day of judgment. Nas Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			An YajAAalalalalal
		
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			Quran
		
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			The Quran has been translated by so many
		
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			people.
		
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			Muslims and non Muslims, those who speak Arabic,
		
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			and those who don't So
		
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			even if you read the Quran in translation,
		
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			you still get something out of it
		
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			Allah
		
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			knows
		
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			that around 85% of Muslims are not Arab.
		
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			You see, a country like Indonesia, one single
		
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			country, one single Muslim country,
		
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			it has more Muslims than all Arab countries
		
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			put together, 24 of them.
		
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			One single non Arab country has more Muslims
		
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			than all Arab countries combined.
		
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			So 85%
		
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			of Muslims are not Arab. Indians, Pakistanis,
		
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			Turkish people, people from Africa, Latin America, Europe,
		
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			Australia, from different places, they don't speak Arabic.
		
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			So when you read the Quran in translation,
		
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			you still get something out of it. Yes,
		
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			it's good to study Arabic and try to
		
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			read in the original language,
		
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			because no translation
		
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			will ever replace the Arabic.
		
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			But if you can't, then by just reading
		
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			the English translation, or the French, or the
		
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			Urdu, or the Turkish, you will get something
		
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			out of it.
		
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			So I'll give you this story, and then
		
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			we'll conclude, insha'Allah.
		
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			So I mentioned this story a few days
		
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			ago, at our Dawah training. So Insha'Allah, after
		
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			Jum'ah, check out our booth downstairs,
		
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			because tomorrow is the International Dawah Day, so
		
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			we have our Dawah team here in the
		
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			Mas'id. We'll be doing Dawah in Toronto and,
		
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			Niagara Falls, Insha'Allah,
		
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			giving out Quran translations and Dawah material, and
		
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			we'll be giving out cold bottles of water
		
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			with a label that has a Ayat from
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			and a website so people, if they want
		
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			to know more about Islam, about the Quran,
		
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			they can visit that website.
		
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			So this guy is a new Nazi, from
		
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			the US, they shave their heads bold, they
		
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			have this * that hitla kid a lot,
		
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			kid fool,
		
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			and he hated
		
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			non whites.
		
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			So If you are brown, if you are
		
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			Asian, if you are black, you'll be in
		
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			trouble if you get on that guy's way.
		
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			They hated non whites.
		
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			This guy was very violent, because he used
		
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			to do drugs,
		
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			and he used to fight with his mother.
		
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			So one day, he was fighting with his
		
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			mother, and he pushed her to the side,
		
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			she fell down, she hit the wall or
		
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			the chair, she caught her head.
		
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			So he ran away from the house because
		
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			she called 911.
		
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			So he said if I go to my
		
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			friend's house, George,
		
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			and I stay in his house the police
		
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			will find me. I'm gonna go to a
		
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			place where no one will think I'm there.
		
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			The library.
		
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			He doesn't go to the library. Okay, so
		
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			he went to the library and he was
		
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			sitting there on the table
		
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			and he noticed that everyone is reading a
		
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			book
		
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			in a book, different fields
		
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			math, science,
		
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			English, poetry.
		
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			So, he said, I gotta read something man,
		
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			because if I sit here without a book
		
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			people look at me like, I'll feel I
		
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			look like a zombie, because everyone is reading,
		
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			I'm sitting here doing nothing.
		
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			So, he just put his hand in the
		
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			shelf, and ran the book, he got a
		
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			random book, and he started to read, it
		
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			turned out that it was Quran.
		
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			It's a true story.
		
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			So he started to read, he read
		
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			the introduction, eventually this guy became Muslim.
		
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			Allah, it's a true story. And at the
		
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			end of the story, they say this guy,
		
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			he quit,
		
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			the drugs he was using, and he became
		
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			very nice to his mother, Sila Dorani. And
		
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			the funny thing at the end of the
		
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			story, it's not funny, but interesting, at the
		
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			end of the story, he got married to
		
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			an African sister from Kenya.
		
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			A black sister. Right? The same people he
		
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			hated, or he used to hate, because in
		
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			Islam, Islam removes racism from the people.
		
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			So, still, by reading the Quran, he got
		
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			something out of it.
		
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			The sister who visited, and this is also
		
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			a true story, happened in Edmonton, a new
		
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			Muslim sister told me that her friend was
		
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			non Muslim.
		
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			She had been Muslim for 2 years, this
		
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			Muslim sister. She invited some of her non
		
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			Muslim friends, They came to our house for
		
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			lunch,
		
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			and this Muslim sister, she didn't know, she
		
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			kept a copy of the translation of the
		
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			Quran in the washroom.
		
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			You know, some people like to sit and
		
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			read newspapers,
		
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			they like to sing because of the echo
		
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			and stuff, so she came she kept the
		
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			English translation in the washroom.
		
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			She didn't know the ruling, but at the
		
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			end of the day, the English doesn't take
		
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			the exact same ruling with the Arabic, because
		
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			what is sacred is the Arabic. So she
		
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			didn't know. She kept the copy in in
		
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			the washroom, then the non Muslim friend came,
		
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			she used the washroom, she started to read,
		
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			and eventually,
		
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			she took shahal.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives Hidayah in
		
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			mysterious ways. So she got Hidayah in the
		
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			washroom. Who who can imagine something like this?
		
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			So by just reading the translation, Insha'Allah, you
		
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			will get some of the reward.
		
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			Insha'Allah, after Jum'ah, there's a table downstairs,
		
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			Brother Abarissa, he's going to be standing there
		
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			with his wife, Insha'Allah,
		
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			and they will because we'll be releasing our
		
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			translation of the Quran. It's called the clear
		
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			Quran, and this is the Arabic English edition
		
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			hardcover.
		
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			And I'm gonna conclude with this. It's something
		
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			interesting, so I thought I might, share it
		
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			with you. A few years ago, 3 4
		
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			years ago,
		
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			I moved from Edmonton to Toronto to stay
		
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			for 1 month at a masjid on Dundas,
		
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			downtown.
		
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			So, every Jummah, I used to go get
		
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			2 or 3 Khutbas,
		
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			and leave, and of course,
		
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			I used to go to the hotel from
		
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			the Masjid, or back and forth.
		
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			The cab driver
		
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			cab drivers all the time, they were called
		
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			Most of them were Muslim. Right? So all
		
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			the people who took me from the hotel
		
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			to the Masjid, back and forth, were Muslim.
		
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			So, that one day,
		
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			3 4 years ago, summertime, August,
		
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			the cab driver was not Muslim.
		
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			So, out of nowhere he said, You know
		
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			what?
		
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			Muslims are good people, but Islam sucks. Islam
		
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			is evil. I said, okay. It reminded me
		
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			of Fox News. I started Fox News for
		
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			PhD for 5 years. They say the same
		
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			thing. Muslims are good, Islam is bad. So
		
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			it is better if you leave Islam, you
		
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			will be good. This is what they say.
		
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			So I said why? He said because the
		
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			Quran calls me Ayoan.
		
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			Your Quran calls me animal.
		
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			I said well, I know the whole Quran
		
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			by heart. It doesn't say that anywhere.
		
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			He started the Ayah from Surah Anfal
		
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			in Nashar al Dawab binindallallahu ladheena kafar. Indeed
		
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			the worst
		
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			Dawab in the sight of Allah are the
		
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			Kufar.
		
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			I said I speak Arabic. The word Dawab
		
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			bin Arabic does not mean animals necessarily, but
		
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			it means all living beings. All the things
		
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			that move on the face of the earth,
		
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			human beings, birds,
		
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			the squirrel in your backyard,
		
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			they are called all called dawab. The words
		
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			of all beings, human or living beings in
		
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			the sight of Allah are the those who
		
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			disbelieve,
		
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			and those who violate their treaties with Muhammad
		
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			all the time. He said, No, this is
		
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			what my translation says.
		
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			So I went home, there is this website,
		
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			it's called Islam Awaken, they give you a
		
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			translation of the Quran, one verse in Arabic,
		
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			40, 45 different translations in English,
		
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			and I looked at them,
		
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			yes, the man was right! Most of them
		
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			say animals or beasts,
		
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			right?
		
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			Then I realized
		
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			how many mistranslations
		
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			and mis you know,
		
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			false
		
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			translations are there, because most of them were
		
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			not done by Arabs. People don't speak Arabic,
		
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			they translate it. Muslims and non Muslims. People
		
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			are not well established in Qur'anic studies, in
		
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			Arabic, in English, in translation, they they know
		
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			nothing. They just translate.
		
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			And those who actually know Arabic from Egypt,
		
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			from Lebanon, from other countries who translate the
		
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			Quran, they complicate things for no reason, they
		
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			make it very difficult.
		
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			Even for Muslims, when you read the Quran,
		
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			well, it's all English, Shakespeare man, what is
		
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			this? You don't understand.
		
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			Horrible mistakes in translation. I'll give you one,
		
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			the Kharaz will let you go, insha'Allah.
		
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			And this is why a lot of people,
		
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			they attack the Quran in translation,
		
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			thinking that this is what the Quran says,
		
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			but this is what the translator
		
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			did in the translation, it is not the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			So one ayah from Surah Anbiya, it talks
		
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			about Yunus alaihis salam
		
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			Then Noon, the man of the whale,
		
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			Itharba Muwadab, and he left his town out
		
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			in a rage,
		
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			for Vanna al Nafdura'alai,
		
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			thinking that Allah has no power over him.
		
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			This is what they say in translation, almost
		
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			all of them. But the word
		
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			it
		
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			doesn't mean that at all.
		
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			How come that a Prophet
		
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			think that Allah
		
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			has no power over them?
		
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			They use the dictionary and this is what
		
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			it says.
		
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			Here
		
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			means it is just like the other ayat
		
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			in the Quran. Why
		
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			not do?
		
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			So it doesn't say Allah has no power
		
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			over him, it says that Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala will make things tight for him, He
		
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			will train him, because he left his town
		
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			without permission.
		
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			He put him in a very tight place.
		
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			What is it? The belly of the whale.
		
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			He made it very tight for him, and
		
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			this is in many places in the Quran.
		
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			Allah gives
		
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			unlimited
		
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			provisions,
		
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			resources to whoever he wants, and he limits.
		
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			He restrains. Allahu yapsu tur rizkalimaniasha
		
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			wa. This is the meaning only someone who
		
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			studied Arabic
		
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			formally, professionally, will understand this. But in translation,
		
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			they don't know. So this is why, alhamdulillah,
		
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			it took us,
		
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			several years, inshaAllah, to translate this translation. So
		
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			check it out, it's available for you, for
		
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			your kids. It makes it very easy for
		
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			them to understand the Quran, and when they
		
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			memorize, it shows them where to start and
		
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			where to stop. So we ask Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala to accept this effort from us,
		
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			and to make it easy for us, and
		
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			we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide
		
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			people to asrath and mustaqeem, and give us
		
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			the best in this life, and the best
		
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			in the life to come.